Micron Technology claims that its portfolio of high-capacity flash memory products will lengthen the life of NAND for years to come. The new ClearNAND devices integrate the error management techniques in the same NAND package. The devices are claimed to extend the opportunities for advanced NAND process generations to be used in enterprise servers, tablet PCs, portable media players, and other consumer applications. The memory products utilise a traditional raw NAND interface, and include new features that are optimised for high-capacity and high-performance applications. The flash memory products are first designed using 25nm multi-level cell process, and are available in two versions: standard and enhanced. The standard products come in eight to 32Gbyte packages, and are intended to remove the ECC (error correction code) burden from the host processor with minimal protocol changes. The standard portfolio is targeted for portable media players and other consumer electronic devices. The enhanced memory products, in addition to removing the ECC burden from the host processor, also provide new enterprise specific features to enable high-capacity designs, delivering improved performance and reliability. Capacities are available in 16 to 64Gbyte packages. These memory products are targeted at enterprise and computing applications, and allow 25nm MLC NAND to be used in these applications.
